Jake Schwitzer
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Executive Director
@northstarpolicy.org
Making Minnesota work for working people.
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Inspired by
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to do some bird photography. Had some fun with this Downy Woodpecker.
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Tina Smith
1 day ago
No, itās just that we hate pedophiles
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Tina Smith
2 days ago
If a "clean CR" spikes my constituentsā health insurance premiums, itās not clean. Itās dirty and puts the interests of the richest Americans ahead of Minnesota and I wonāt vote for it. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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Aaron Rosenthal
7 days ago
Great story from
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on our recent report release and efforts to end wage theft for non-unionized construction workers in Minneapolis. It's time to move from whack-a-mole reactive enforcement to across-the-board proactive compliance.
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North Star Policy Action
7 days ago
Yesterday we stood with labor allies and released our new report, A Roadmap to Compliance: Strengthening Worker Protections in Minneapolis Construction. We called on the city to take bold steps to eliminate wage theft, retaliation, sexual assault, and labor trafficking.
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MPR News
7 days ago
Labor groups are calling for Minneapolis to more proactively enforce the cityās regulations against worker wage theft and on-site harassment. āThe message is clear: For workers, the risks of reporting are greater than the rewards, while bad actors see the opposite,ā said researcher Aaron Rosenthal.
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Advocates want the City of Minneapolis to do more to end wage theft, worker harassment
A report released by a progressive think tank recommends that the city use its permitting authority and independent audits to ensure that existing labor regulations are properly enforced.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/10/15/advocates-want-city-of-minneapolis-to-do-more-to-end-wage-theft-worker-harassment
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Lars Negstad
15 days ago
c'mon mn say hell no to Waymo
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Governor Tim Walz
21 days ago
Trumpās Big Beautiful Bill just raised health insurance rates by an average of $2,000 a year for middle class Minnesotans. Heās prioritizing the pocketbooks of the wealthy - leaving rural communities, middle class families, and small businesses out in the dust.
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Nicholas Grossman
22 days ago
Why would any legislator vote for a budget the executive will ignore? In that situation, a yes vote conveys one thing and nothing else: validation for the White Houseās blatantly unconstitutional actions.
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Bobby Kogan
24 days ago
Key part of funding negotiations that's underdiscussed: Ds want to add provisions to ensure any agreement they come to is *actually followed* (unlike what's happening now) But Trump says that's a red line he won't accept - that he wants the ability to come to an agreement & immediately break it
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Trump doesnāt care about you if youāre not a billionaire saying nice things about him on the teevee.
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27 days ago
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Greg Sargent
27 days ago
Trump is absolutely cratering in new Quinnipiac poll: Overall approval: 38-54 Approval on economy: 39-56 Approval on trade: 39-54 On National Guard into cities: 42-55 On immigration, his "best" issue: 41-55 Trump is weak, unpopular, and failing. Treat him that way:
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North Star Policy Action
28 days ago
We love to brag when Minnesota is the best. This isnāt a list we want to be high on. Minnesota has the fourth largest teacher pay penalty in the country. Our teachers make 33% less than other workers with a college degree. Nationwide, the gap is the largest itās ever been and growing.
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Jared Yates Sexton
about 1 month ago
Anything we do has to include breaking up corporate and media monopolies. The tools are there to dismantle this horseshit, you just have to find the people willing to use them.
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slate
about 1 month ago
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Andrew Lawrence
about 1 month ago
if youre a ceo and didnāt see this coming then you should be fired for being a dumb stupid gullible moron and also gross negligence
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Racket
about 1 month ago
Come on, man.
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Gimme a Freakin' Break! Alleged Union Buster Ann Kim Was Never 'Canceled.' - Racket
Plus U of M labor drama, Euro Target cometh, and one sweet little cabin in today's Flyover news roundup.
https://racketmn.com/gimme-a-freakin-break-alleged-union-buster-ann-kim-was-never-canceled
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Aaron Sojourner
about 1 month ago
A typical hour of work afforded American employees less purchasing power in August than in July. Both accelerating consumer price inflation & decelerating wage growth contributed to the decline in real hourly wages & real weekly earnings.
www.bls.gov/news.release...
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Aaron Sojourner
about 1 month ago
That's bad, fam.
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āYou can wholeheartedly support workersā rights and still see the challenges of implementing a traditional union in this business.ā Nah. Either laborās collective voice matters everywhere or it matters nowhere. Solidarity.
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about 1 month ago
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Seems like the best thing I can do as a father is figure out how to keep my sons as far away from the internet as possible.
about 1 month ago
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Hell yeah. We need more high profile displays of solidarity like this.
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about 1 month ago
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Should be pretty easy to track how many construction jobs are a result of Biden's infrastructure bill and how many are in factory construction.
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about 1 month ago
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I'm sad about guns.
about 1 month ago
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North Star Policy Action
about 1 month ago
Minnesota's Republican Members of Congress voting to hurt tens of thousands of their constituents, so they can send even more money to their billionaire supporters. This is the real class warfare, and Minnesotans are losing.
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The rapist president thinks domestic abuse isn't a crime.
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about 1 month ago
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Rep. Leigh Finke
about 2 months ago
If the GOP is serious about taking on the mental health challenges that lead to this violence, they should start by talking to their cult leader. CNN: "The Trump administration cut funding in [Minnesota] for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence."
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The Sanders Institute
2 months ago
All work has dignity.
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Radley Balko
2 months ago
Just going to reiterate that in 2016 Trump inherited the lowest murder rate of any president in 50 years. He set reality aside, gave his āAmerican Carnageā inaugural address, and was then the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher murder rate than when he started.
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I'm curious to see what happens to National Guard participation as it's increasingly used as an illegal police force.
2 months ago
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Missing The Point
2 months ago
"Violent crime is up in Washington, DC" says man who pardoned the largest group in history that committed violent crimes in Washington, DC.
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Rodger Sherman
3 months ago
If thereās one thing we can all agree on, itās that all these guys truly respect and care about womenās sports and female athletes, and totally arenāt just using them as a prop to stir up anger at trans people
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Law and order babyyyyyyy
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3 months ago
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Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation (MRLF)
3 months ago
This is solidarity! ā THANK YOU to everyone in our pro-labor community who showed up and spoke up yesterday to protect prevailing wage for Bloomington workers. š£ļø Together, we did it. š Weāll keep showing up when pro-worker policies are up for debate.
#WhenWeFightWeWin
#BloomingtonMN
#prevailingwage
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Brendel
3 months ago
When the economy is stronger than ever
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Josh Marshall
3 months ago
Trump transfers Ghislaine from Florida to cush Texas club fed camp as initial inducement to exonerate Trump as negotiation for pardon/commutation continues
nypost.com/2025/08/01/u...
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Ghislaine Maxwell quietly moved to cushy new Texas prison as she pushes for deal to tell-all on Epstein, his associates
Ghislaine Maxwell has quietly been moved to a far more favorable Texas prison camp as she hashes a possible deal to divulge secrets about her sex-crimes accomplice Jeffrey Epstein.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/01/us-news/ghislaine-maxwell-quietly-moved-to-cushy-new-texas-prison-as-she-pushes-for-deal-to-tell-all-on-epstein-his-associates/?utm%C2%A7source=nypost&utm%C2%A7campaign=android%C2%A7nyp&utm%C2%A7medium=social
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Aaron Sojourner
3 months ago
How does recent growth compare to recent years? Economy added 1.54 million jobs over 12 months to July 2025. Weaker than any year to July since 2010 other than 2020.
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Heidi Shierholz
3 months ago
Whoa, the jobs numbers are really bad. With the new July numbers and revisions to May/June, the avg monthly job growth of the last 3 months is 35,000. As Josh says, if we were entering a recession, this is what it would look like.
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Ahem
prospect.org/labor/01-19-...
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Billionaire Pohlad Family Accused of Using Anti-Worker Construction Contractors
The Minneapolis-based developer has not done enough to ensure good labor practices throughout its supply chain, critics say.
https://prospect.org/labor/01-19-2024-billionaire-pohlad-family-accused-of-using-anti-worker-const/
3 months ago
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD
3 months ago
I've seen a number of folks talking about grants they/colleagues had cut & lists of those going around - plz share this effort by
@brindabee.bsky.social
&
@realdoctormike.bsky.social
to gather stories of cancelled research grants and clip these into a media campaign
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Tim Onion
3 months ago
Iāve had nothing to do with that pedophile since he stole all of my teenage masseuses.
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Joshua Erlich
3 months ago
ok, even i didn't expect "i never went to epstein island because he was cutting into my market share in the trafficking children sector."
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I wonder if there are any lessons we can learn from history about railroad monopolies?
apnews.com/article/unio...
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Union Pacific and Norfolk seek 1st transcontinental railroad through a massive merger
Union Pacific is seeking to buy Norfolk Southern in a $85 billion deal that would create the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S, and potentially trigger a final wave of rail mergers across the...
https://apnews.com/article/union-pacific-norfolk-southern-transcontinental-railroad-merger-b15664ec5cc55b985a0a32a1bf990d41
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Brian Beutler
3 months ago
Already we can say that *even a relatively generous interpretation of the facts* is incredibly damning. You don't say ludicrous stuff like Obama and Hillary forged the Epstein files unless you suspect the files themselves raise (or answer!) disqualifying questions.
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"They're a bunch of sick people." Personally, I think Jeffrey Epstein and all his friends are a bunch of sick people. That's just me.
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3 months ago
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He's gonna do it! Every single step of this cover up has been as clumsy as possible, I'm in awe.
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3 months ago
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Lauren Rinaldi
3 months ago
Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isnāt in the Epstein files, Iāll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and Iāll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards
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Elizabeth Warren
3 months ago
The official numbers just dropped on Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. Trump officially made the biggest cuts to health care in US history. Trump made the biggest cuts to food stamps in US history. Trump added $4.1T to the debt to give tax cuts to the ultra-rich and corporations.
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Very interesting, I've heard brake dust issues used as an argument AGAINST EVs. Glad they're an improvement.
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3 months ago
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leon
3 months ago
wazzzaaaa dude happy birthday lol š hope youāre having a good one wish i was there Also we all know the secret we share. Into the depths of darkness men like us tread. The hunger that drives us away from the light.
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Dan Nguyen
3 months ago
I estimate roughly 80-95% of the most fervent Epstein fanatics still donāt know about Alex Acosta
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